san antonio TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

frisly COLOP: Music is an art by which we can express our deepest feelings, emotions and thoughts. It is an art that can often bring memories which transport us in time to past experiences and places or spaces associated with those memories. On a global scale, we collectively and individually activate spaces around us through our physical presence and by reacting to the different experiences encountered throughout the space itself.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

melanie KOTZ: MY FRACTOWN—My proposal for the city is based on the desire of having a city that is able to grow over time and thus, incorporate cultural circumstances and traditional influences of its inhabitants, within its evolution. The site i have chosen for this city is situated at the very north of the bay of bengal, bordering bangladesh. here, the terrain immerses in the water, allowing the city to move away from the geological realities of the main land, and instead evolve on a more flexible medium, that is water. A floating city shall overcome fundamental problems in the country’s quality of life, which flood and ebb brings about.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

evita FANOU & nathan HOOFNAGLE: At the edge of the city, exactly where the city meets the air, is it possible to build the impossible perfect city of Aristophanes? This city, like a thick folding cloud distorts reality, like Alice in Wonderland, using it to support the ethereal fiction. Like a vessel this cloud of particles is a cloud, a formless system, based on movement and friction. It is a fog, a blurry border that entices the viewer and provokes their desire to touch it. At the edge of the city is the loop that traps you inside, a space one never wants to leave. It looks elegant and desirable; people breath the air of this ephemeral atomosphere. Upon this each breadth, they become part of its fiction.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

preston scott COHEN
Wednesday, 03/14
06:30 - 08:00 pm / Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building
Bartlett School of Architecture
Gower Street
London WC1H 0QB

los angeles CALIFORNIA

HONDA – Honda Advanced Design Studio, Pasadena, California

The Honda Air concept is a vision of the future of lightweight and alternative fuel performance vehicles; a coastal cruiser for the aggressive lifestyle. Inspired by the modern roller coaster as well as skydiving wing-suits, the Air is powered by a compressed air and pneumatic regulator system. It utilizes turbo vacuums and external air-flow to regenerate tank pressure for extended range and increased boost for an estimated 100 miles. The chassis doubles as the master tank and all components, including seating, are mounted to the central chassis/tank to eliminate redundant structure and reduce overall weight.

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sydney AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

tony OWEN: Tony Owen Partners have just completed the transformation of the Darling Island public areas. Darling Island Apartments, originally completed in 2004, is one of the most prestigious developments in Sydney in recent years. Located on a virtual island at the western side of Darling Harbour, it has spectacular Sydney city views and absolute water frontage. The large apartments are luxuriously and environmentally designed.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

raymond PAN/HMC Architects: The Taiwan Tower design is conceived as an iconic new building for Taiwan, and an integral part of the city’s urban fabric. The tower derives its form and function from an emphasis on connectedness: connection to its urban context, connection with natural processes and sustainable systems, and connection to the history and culture of the people of Taichung. The tower’s base engages the multiple conditions present in the local urban context, including the creation of a bridge to the new Gateway Park, the enhancement of pedestrian and mass transit linkages, and acknowledgement of the adjacent historic quarter.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS: The contemporary architectural figure has evolved into two coherent strains of formal expression: the cartoon and the visceral. The cartoon figure is about simplicity & clarity and engages the intellect through an optical visuality. It employs a juvenile-like sensibility towards geometry and form, is logo-centric, and privileges the mediated. The visceral figure is about intensity & sensation and bypasses the intellect and engages the nervous system through a haptic visuality. It employs a complex, biomorphic sensibility towards geometry, form, and material, and privileges the immediate.

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the hague THE NETHERLANDS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

matthijs la ROI: The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a combination of small dysfunctional public spaces and conflicting flows of traffic.

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atlanta GEORGIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph CHOMA, Design Topology Lab: In linguistics, a boundary is anything that defines a limit. Numerically, it may be straightforward to determine a boundary, however, perceptually it is often more ambiguous and subjective. This installation challenges fixed preconceptions of what it means to draw and experience a drawing. The drawing itself is computationally generated using a thickening trigonometric transformation. As the sphere thickens over a series of recursions its geometry begins to mediate between multiple envelopes. The sphere no longer has one boundary but rather has multiple boundaries.

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